"Skacat," Lumen's voice crackled in my cochlear implant. "You fail, we all drown down here. You succeed… maybe you buy back your reflection."
I took a long drag.
I punched the throttle. The Ram-9 screamed. The first masin followed. Then the second. Then the tenth. We became a serpent of fire and steel, slithering up the wall of a dead mall. Gravity tried to peel me off. Sparks showered from my side mirror. At the apex, the ramp ended in a fifty-meter drop to a lower freeway. skacat- city car driving 100 masin
"Skacat!" Lumen screamed. "Divert!"
Lumen's voice came back, quiet. "You lost fifty-three." "Skacat," Lumen's voice crackled in my cochlear implant